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[Dovecot] LDAP: allow pop3, restrict imap
by Andreas Schulze 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hello, I have all userdata in a ldapserver. Every user has the right to use pop3. There is no explicit attribute allowing that. It's simply possible. Now I like to add imap. For a starting period I like to restrict, who may use imap. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/RestrictAccess mention a solution where I could modify ldap pass_filter. But that require an attribute "service=pop3" to be present in the ldap servers. In my case I have to add it for every existing user :-/ No way... Are there other options? Thanks, Andreas

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[Dovecot] socket /var/spool/postfix/private/auth not created
by lister171254 26 May '14

26 May '14

I'm on Ubuntu 13.10 and followed these instructions http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL to configure Dovecot for Postfix. No matter what I try, the listener is not created. <http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/file/n48182/32.png> dovecot -n does not show the listener (I guess that's why its not created) This is the extract from the /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf --------------- service auth { # auth_socket_path points to this userdb socket by default. It's typically # used by dovecot-lda, doveadm, possibly imap process, etc. Users that have # full permissions to this socket are able to get a list of all usernames and # get the results of everyone's userdb lookups. # # The default 0666 mode allows anyone to connect to the socket, but the # userdb lookups will succeed only if the userdb returns an "uid" field that # matches the caller process's UID. Also if caller's uid or gid matches the # socket's uid or gid the lookup succeeds. Anything else causes a failure. # # To give the caller full permissions to lookup all users, set the mode to # something else than 0666 and Dovecot lets the kernel enforce the # permissions (e.g. 0777 allows everyone full permissions). unix_listener auth-userdb { #mode = 0666 #user = #group = } # Postfix smtp-auth unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0600 user = postfix group = postfix } # Auth process is run as this user. #user = $default_internal_user } ---------------- Postfix is not involved in this right now as I expect the socket to be created when I restart dovecot. Can't find any meaningfull errors in the logs either. I hope I'm missing something obvious Thanks, Leo -- View this message in context: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/socket-var-spool-postfix-private-auth-… Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Dovecot] Copies of outgoing emails in the Sent folder
by Dmitry Podkovyrkin 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi! My mail server works in tandem: Dovecot (IMAP) + Postfix. How can I configure in Gmail: Outgoing email copied to the Sent folder using postfix without mail client? This question is for the mailing list for Postfix? Mail client itself copies outgoing messages in the folder Sent, but the messages are large, and the server is far away. And to transmit email twice for sending and copying is not effective. Sorry for my English ). -- Regards Dmitry Podkovyrkin mobile: +7 922 20 56 756 email: dmirty(a)rutelecom.company skype: dmitryrw

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[Dovecot] Multilayer mail handling
by Jimmy Thrasibule 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi, I'm wondering what is the correct architecture and configuration to setup a multilayer mail handling? What I have in mind is something more like what we can found in Web platform architectures. 1. First layer does first checks: user authentication and SSL offloading. If all checks are OK request is proxied to layer 2. 2. Second layer, will actually handle the IMAP/POP3 connection proxied by layer 1, no major checks should be done as already made by layer 1. 3. Finally, layer 3 to do some virus checks on the emails and maybe some other things I can't think about. Do you have some pointers on how to set up such a mail stack where each layer can be on multiple other hosts? Best regards, Jimmy

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[Dovecot] Index cache errors worse with 2.2.x
by Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth 25 May '14

25 May '14

Hi! I am getting "Cached message size smaller than expected" errors since dovecot-2.1.x. Until now, I thought that those errors don't do any harm, I assumed that the cache will just be rebuilt after the error had been detected. However, since dovecot 2.2.x (I tried 2.2.7 and 2.2.10), the errors sometimes seem to actually cause mail access to fail. With dovecot-2.1.1, only the first two messages were logged, since using 2.2.7 and 2.2.10, the "read ... failed: Invalid argument" sometimes appear: -------------------- 8< -------------------- May 7 17:03:52 samba dovecot: imap(xyz): Error: Cached message size smaller than expected (2246 < 2247) May 7 17:03:52 samba dovecot: imap(xyz): Error: Corrupted index cache file /home/xyz/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Broken physical size for mail UID 11277 May 7 17:03:52 samba dovecot: imap(xyz): Error: read(/var/mail/xyz) failed: Invalid argument May 7 17:03:52 samba dovecot: imap(xyz): Error: read(/var/mail/xyz) failed: Invalid argument (uid=11277) -------------------- 8< -------------------- I am using dovecot on RHEL6 with mbox mailboxes. Message size differences are always 1 byte. Any hints would be appreciated! Cheers, --leo P.S.: Those errors occur some times a day and affect different users.. (Upgrade 2.1.1 -> 2.2.7 was on 2013-11-22, 2.2.10 was installed on 2014-01-20.) # for f in maillog* ; do echo -n "$f: "; grep "dovecot:.*Error: read.*failed.*Invalid arg" $f | wc -l; done maillog: 31 maillog-20130801: 0 maillog-20130901: 1 maillog-20131001: 0 maillog-20131101: 0 maillog-20131201: 30 maillog-20140101: 92 maillog-20140201: 110 maillog-20140301: 99 maillog-20140401: 133 maillog-20140501: 100 # for f in maillog* ; do echo -n "$f: "; grep "dovecot:.*Error: Cached message size smaller than expected" $f | wc -l; done maillog: 99 maillog-20130801: 465 maillog-20130901: 484 maillog-20131001: 512 maillog-20131101: 460 maillog-20131201: 520 maillog-20140101: 402 maillog-20140201: 400 maillog-20140301: 355 maillog-20140401: 481 maillog-20140501: 434 -- e-mail ::: Leo.Bergolth (at) wu.ac.at fax ::: +43-1-31336-906050 location ::: IT-Services | Vienna University of Economics | Austria

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[Dovecot] Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value
by Daminto Lie 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hi, My Server runs on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS 32 bits. I'm getting the following error messages when I run "make check" during the compilation of dovecot-2.2.13. <snip> ==2058== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==2058== at 0x4049DD8: inflateReset2 (in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.3.4) ==2058== by 0x4049EC7: inflateInit2_ (in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.3.4) ==2058== by 0x804AFEF: i_stream_zlib_init (istream-zlib.c:320) ==2058== by 0x804B122: i_stream_create_zlib (istream-zlib.c:475) ==2058== by 0x804AA18: test_compression_handler (test-compression.c:72) ==2058== by 0xEFCDAB88: ??? ==2058== make[2]: *** [check-test] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-2.2.13/src/lib-compression' make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/dovecot-2.2.13/src' make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

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[Dovecot] dsync incredibly slow
by Alan McGinlay 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hi! While performing a dsync from cyrus imap to dovecot 2.2.12, dsync seems to stop for perhaps a minute without disk / cpu / memory activity (that I can see). This happens several times per sync per user so it takes an enormous amount of time to sync just a couple of gigs of mail. dsync -D -v -o mail_fsync=never mirror -f -R -u user(a)example.com imapc: What could possibly be the cause of this slowness? Is it protocol dependent or just dsync it's self? Thanks!

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[Dovecot] Mail logger plugin, improvement request
by Gilles Chauvin 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hi Timo, Would it be possible for the mail logger plugin to also log the imap MOVE events (RFC6851) ? Thanks. Regards, Gilles.

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[Dovecot] Dovecot ontop of glusterfs issue.
by Eliezer Croitoru 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hey, I am testing Glusterfs as a storage backend for dovecot as a LDA and imap server. I have seen similar lines in the logs to these: May 21 10:46:01 mailgw dovecot: imap(eliezer(a)ngtech.co.il): Warning: Created dotlock file's timestamp is different than current time (1400658105 vs 1400658361): /home/vmail/ngtech.co.il/eliezer/Maildir/.Mailing_lists.ceph_users/dovecot-uidlist May 21 10:46:01 mailgw dovecot: imap(eliezer(a)ngtech.co.il): Error: Transaction log /home/vmail/ngtech.co.il/eliezer/Maildir/dovecot.index.log: duplicate transaction log sequence (2713) The volume is mounted only by one server with ubutntu 14.04. I have seen threads and posts about similar issue with nfs. I want to try to debug the issue but note that with the same settings of the server nfs worked fine but slower. dovecot -n output: http://pastebin.centos.org/9626/ The glusterfs is a replicated volume constructed of two bricks which is mounted only on one dovecot server. All three servers are using the same ntp pool and are synced. Any direction is better then the state I am now. Thanks, Eliezer

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[Dovecot] director with same director / backend servers
by Will Yardley 23 May '14

23 May '14

I know this has been covered somewhat, but I'm still not totally clear. I'm trying to setup a 3 node cluster with 3 directors and 3 backend systems. This post (from 2012) suggests that proxy_maybe should work with director: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-December/069806.html However, these two posts (from 2013) seem to say that it will not: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2013-November/093776.html http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2013-November/093809.html When I try to just set =proxy_maybe=y in my LDAP config's pass_attrs, and not have an explicit 'director' listener for pop3-login / imap-login, it complains about lack of a host. May 22 14:28:08 XXXX dovecot: pop3-login: Error: proxy: host not given: user=<XXXXXXX>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured Guessing the answer is "no", but is there any way (with v 2.x) to have one regular "listener" for imap / pop3, and one "director" listener for each as well, using the same instance of Dovecot? Has anyone gotten this to work successfully? I'm using LDAP, and do not want to explicitly specify a host for each username, I just want director to balance users across the 3 hosts. Obviously, I can just create two instances, but not only does this make the config more convoluted (especially following the convention of having the config files broken out into a bunch of files), but means I have to modify the default init script to really do it cleanly (something we were doing on the older iteration of this system that I had really been hoping to avoid). I'm assuming it's not possible to simply have the listeners for 'foo-login' execute something different depending on the port? I tried a couple different ways of configuring this, but it didn't seem to work. Dovecot is version 2.0.9 from RHEL 6. w

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